Chagatai people

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Baqi Beg Chaghtai, pays homage to Babur.

The Chagatai are one of the ethnic groups of Uzbekistan. The Chagatai live in the Surxondaryo Province in South-East Uzbekistan and in Southern Tajikistan. They numbered 63,500 in 1924-25. Together with the Kharduri, the Chagatai are one of the ethnographic groups who maintain a distinct identity. The origin of the people is unknown, although the name Chagatai is of Mongol origin, as Chagatai Khan was a son of Genghis Khan.

The Turkic Chagatai language is the language of the Chagatai people.^{[citation needed]}

See also[]

• Tajik people
• Kharduri people

References[]

• Ronald Wixman (1984). The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 41, 183. ISBN 978-0-87332-506-6.

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